19:52 - SpawdophonikDoes anyone live in an American suburb, if so is it still like this:

19:33 - Marcel Hubregtsebtw if you want to hear some really off the wall covers when compared to the originals listen to this split [link]

19:32 - Marcel HubregtseYeah that's a great cover. Loved at first listen when I got hold of the vinyl version of One in Darkness, Two in Damnation, Three in Death, 2002 - 2007 compilation on their tour in 2013.

10:39 - Ace FrawleyShit, just read this on Twitter: Due to some recent activity that we as individuals have zero tolerance for, Danny Walker is no longer the drummer in Intronaut. What the hell happened?

Wolves In The Throne Room. That name quite clearly means different things to different people. Upon the announcement that the band's fifth album would have no vocals or drums, and instead be more of an instrumental ambient album, a polarization of sorts occurred among the WITTR fanbase. Many were excited about the idea, but a good percent of others lamented the loss of the band's black metal personality that was to come. I happily planted myself in the former camp, and I'm very delighted to say that the Weaver brothers have exceeded my expectations with Celestite.

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Written by infernaldeath87 on 17.07.2014 at 06:57...the ambience thing just seems like it's too overboard, it's such a drastic departure of sound my opinion.

Too overboard? The whole point of the album is ambiance. I'm not arguing that you have to like it or anything, like I get that tastes differ, but you're basically saying you don't like an ambient album because it's too ambient.

Also a little confused about the latter portion of your comment. It's obviously a drastic departure of sound - they said it would be, and set out to create something unlike anything they've released previously. If you weren't keeping up with the information being revealed about this while it was being recorded then I could understand your surprise, but it's not like this was some well-kept secret designed to shock their fans.

Well if it's any consolation, I WAS shocked and surprised because when I bought the album from iTunes after it was released since I was going in expecting their routine atmospheric black metal sound and it's not the fact that I don't like that it was too ambient, I don't like the album because it IS ambient. Not any knock on ambient music, it was just very off-putting and disappointing for me considering that Celestial Lineage was one of my favorite releases of 2011. I'm just a fan of the atmospheric black metal WITTR, not the ambient one, that's all I'm saying.

Hmmm, I'm surprised some people love this album. I gave it a few spins and then lost interest in it. By far WITTR's weakest, least interesting album, though I wouldn't call it bad by any means. Kind of agree with Troy here. I like ambient, but more when it's combined with metal (preferably doom or BM), not a purely ambient album like this one. Might check it out one more time, but in the mean time I'll continue to listen to the first two WITTR albums, which are both highly superior to this one.

Written by Erik M. on 29.08.2014 at 21:46Hmmm, I'm surprised some people love this album.

Not really. I know plenty of people here are fans of pure ambient music and within the genre this is rich stuff. I'm not surprised you didn't like it. You certainly don't strike me as someone who listens to pure ambient albums.

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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29Like you could kiss my ass

Not really. I know plenty of people here are fans of pure ambient music and within the genre this is rich stuff. I'm not surprised you didn't like it. You certainly don't strike me as someone who listens to pure ambient albums.

As I said, I enjoyed this, but more as background music, like Troy said. I surely like ambient music but indeed not when it's purely ambient. When combined with metal I love in a lot of cases.

I love this album despite not rating it 9 or 10. There's something very mysterious yet creepy about it, it's not the sort of thing I listen to as a metal album, I don't really consider this to be like anything else on MS. But it's still awesome in its own way.